25 years of BioNews
Throughout 2024, PET will be celebrating the 25th birthday of BioNews. BioNews launched as a weekly digital publication in March 1999, and today we are publishing our 1225th edition...
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Mitochondrial Donation
50 articles
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
Radio Review: In Our Time – Mitochondria
Luke Steventon reviews a radio programme about mitochondria, which are described as producing energy production levels of '30 million volts per metre – like a bolt of lightning'...
Image by the University of Edinburgh via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts cells with organelles (colour-enhanced electron micrograph of cells, showing nuclei in green and mitochondria in red).
First children born following mitochondrial donation in the UK
The birth of the first UK child(ren) with donated mitochondria has been confirmed by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority...
Image by the University of Edinburgh via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts cells with organelles (colour-enhanced electron micrograph of cells, showing nuclei in green and mitochondria in red).
Mythbusting mitochondrial disease and mitochondrial donation
As mitochondrial disease and mitochondrial donation hit the headlines, PET clears up misunderstandings with its 'Mythbusting Mitochondrial Donation' resource, and with a set of recommended videos...
UK fertility law needs modernising
Scientific development is starting to push against, or go beyond, the boundaries of what is permissible under UK fertility law. It is time to modernise the law, and the HFEA has launched a consultation to determine how best to do that...
Ten reasons why PET is needed in 2023
To kick off 2023, PET has asked ten key experts and advocates – working in the UK, the USA, Australia and Singapore – to tell us what they need us to do this year. Their responses have left us in little doubt that PET is needed now more than ever...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
Meeting the demand for eggs for research: A new approach to consent?
Professor Catherine Mills and PhD candidate Ezra Kneebone from Monash University, Australia discuss the critical shortages of eggs available for fertility treatment and put forward a proposal to counteract this shortage, for both reproductive and research purposes...
FILM: Fertility Frontiers – What Is a 'Permitted' Embryo in Law?
This film documents a PET event about current legal limits on reproductive technology, and whether these limits should be changed....
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
Mitochondrial transfer: first for fertility treatment, then for mitochondrial diseases
Australia recently passed legislation explicitly allowing mitochondrial donation...
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
Legalisation of mitochondrial donation in Australia: What comes next?
In this commentary, we consider the road to legalisation in Australia, the key aspects of this legislation, and some remaining unanswered questions...
